[39] _Vide_ Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope, Vol. II. [40] _Vide_ “Translation of Homer,” ed. Buckley, Intro., p. 47; and cp. “The Guardian,” No. 78, “A Receipt to make an Epic Poem.” [41] Tovey, _op. cit._, March 8, 1771 (Vol. II, pp. 305 foll.); Beattie’s comments are given by Tovey, _ibid._, footnotes. [42] “Rambler,” No. 121, May 14, 1751. [43] “Lines written in Imitation of Certain Poems Published in 1777”; and cp. William Whitehead’s “Charge to the Poets” (1762), which may be taken to reflect the various attitudes of the reading public towards the “revivals.”—(“Poets of Great Britain,” 1794, Vol. XI, pp. 935-7.) [44] Works (1820), _op. cit._, Vol. IV, p. 124. [45] September 27, 1788 (“Letters,” 4 vols, 1806, Vol. II, p. 106). [46] Letter to Lady Hesketh, March 22, 1790 (“Correspondence of William Cowper—Arranged in Chronological Order by T. Wright,” 4 vols., 1904).—Vol. III, pp. 446, foll. [47] 1807 ed., Vol. I, pp. 21 and 24; cp. also Campbell, “The Philosophy of Rhetoric” (London, 1776), Vol. I, pp. 410-411. [48] “Spectator,” 285, January 26, 1712. [49] “Homer”; ed. Buckley, Intro., 49. [50] Spingarn, _op. cit._, II, pp. 1-51; for Hobbes “Answer,” and Cowley’s “Preface to Poems,” see _ibid._, pp. 54-90. [51] “Dedication of the Æneis,” Ker, _op. cit._, Vol. II, pp. 154, foll.; cp. Addison, “Spectator,” 297, January 9, 1712. [52] _Vide_, e.g., E. Barat, “Le Style poétique et la Révolution Romantique” (Paris, 1904), pp. 5-35. [53] “Lives of the Poets. Pope,” ed. Birbeck Hill, Vol. III, p. 251. [54] _Ibid._, p. 244. [55] January 17, 1782 (Wright, _op. cit._, Vol. II, pp. 429-30). [56] Prose Works, ed. Grosart, Vol. II, pp. 101 foll. [57] “Biographia Literaria,” ed. Shawcross (1907), p. 26, Note; cp. also Southey, “Works of Cowper” (1884 edition), Vol. I, p. 313. [58] “The Progress of Taste,” III, ll. 7-10. [59] Wordsworth himself of course stigmatized the “hubbub of words” which was often the only result of these eighteenth century attempts to paraphrase passages from the Old and the New Testament “as they exist in our common translation.”—_Vide_ Prefaces, etc., “Poetical Works,” ed. Hutchinson (Oxford, 1916). p. 943. [60] For a detailed description of the stock diction of English “Classical” poetry, see especially Myra Reynolds, “Nature in English Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth” (Chicago, 1912), to which the foregoing remarks are indebted. [61] “Essay on Criticism,” I, l. 350 foll. [62] “Essay on Men and Manners” (Works, 1764), Vol. II. [63] “History of English Prosody” (1908), Vol. II, p. 449. [64] Bysshe, “Art of Poetry,” Third Edition (1708), Chap. I, par. 1 (quoted by Saintsbury, “Loci Critici,” 1903, p. 174). [65] To the Rev. John Newton, December 10, 1785 (Wright, _op. cit._, Vol. II, pp. 404-406). [66] _Vide_ Pope’s Works, ed. Courthope and Elwin (1889), Vol. V., p. 166.